The Spaniard’s Courtesy and Travel Nuisances Abroad
An observer praises Spaniards for helpful manners yet notes railway smoking, loud talk, and beggar scams in Madrid. Describes passengers in a car ignoring a dispute, beggars with decrepit guitars, lottery ticket pleas, and a noble order for Vermont maple sugar shipped to Europe. An English farmer pays a fine with a blank check, the magistrate filling in the amount.
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Madrid
Fyten
Spain
Gale
Chicago News
Vermont
Burlington, Vt
France
Holland
Belgium
Scotland
Ireland
England
The Queer Chinese Deeds and Customs by Bard Exposed
A review of Emile Bard's The Chinese at Home describes stark poverty and ritual in China. It notes child mortality, funeral costs driving estate sales, heating and cooking constraints, and peculiar religious practices such as prayer mills and exorcism rites.
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Emile Bard
Celestial Empire
Peking
M. Bard
Mexico’s Diaz and the Rural Police Reform
Diaz used diplomacy to reorganize bandits into a rurales mounted police, offering high pay uniforms and horses to enlist followers. Bandits who refused were hunted by former comrades, yielding safer rural life with few crimes. An American miner praised Mexico’s safety versus Chicago.
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Mexico
Diaz
Rurales
Repubiic
Chicago
Republic
Chicago Record-Herald
Vesuvius Ablaze Chronicle From Naples to Rome
A writer recalls a dramatic Vesuvius eruption scene as flames surge from a burning caldron atop the mountain. Yellow gray smoke, towering fire, and a cyclopean rocket-like plume fill the sky, with glowing material pouring down the slopes in a vivid, awe struck description.
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Vesuvius
Naples
Rome
Independent
Politely Busy Caplin Politician Meets Brief Women Delegation
A delegation of women visited the capitol to seek support for a bill. The congressman, described as energetic, offered to hear them at once but requested they present their case in a few words, remarking he would listen no matter how much they had to say if concise.
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Capitol
Congress
Philadelphia Public Ledger
Experienced writers and a polite burglar tale
A playful Chicago Daily News quip frames a burglar who hides his loot in a secret pocket and bids the victim good night. The victim retorts with wit as the burglar promises to return in weeks, not for a job but to hawk a book titled How to Be a Gentleman Burglar.
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Chicago Daily News
Lively Miscellany Of Odd Facts From Around The World
A roundup of curiosities notes Canada lobsters caught yearly, a labor temple plan in Rutland Vermont, and a British museum librarian rumored to study astrology. It mentions elephant import ideas for the Americas, rising Japanese life insurance, a Berlin painter in a street panorama, and George Washington Harvey selling his famed Washington restaurant.
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Central Labor Union
Rutland
South Oftra
Isle of Man
Blackburn
England
South
Central America
Japan
India
London
Europe
Joseph HH. Choate
New York
Wiliam Lloyd Garrison
Henry George
Ena
Spain
Thomas W. Davis
Century Club of America
Richard Carnett
British Museum
Richard Franklin Pettigrew
United States Senate
Tie
South Dakota
Pettierew
Victoria
Berlin
Unter den Linden
Anna L. George
Haverhill
Merrimack Bank
Peor
Tristram. Dalton
Myrs
Mexico
Rio Purerto
George Washington Harvey
Epicure
Washington
Starvey
John
George Harvey
Clergyman Guest Tells Tale Of Rural Hospitality
A clergyman returning from the West was hosted by a Pilkie in a rural community. Beef steak served as the main dish and the guest chewed with evident effort. The host claimed the meat was tender but cited dull knives to spare the children’s feelings and preserve hospitality.
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Springfeld
Memorable House Quips and Civil Rights Debate Moments
In Congress, Reed defends progressive thought while reframing quotes about honesty and right over power. General Spinola mocks a Hull painting amid Reed’s Fules clash as Butler and Randall spar on a Sunday session and Sabbath law. The exchange blends wit and political theater from the civil rights showdown era.
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Chairman
Tlinois
Reed
Spinola
Yorktown
Mee
Tim Campbell
Ben Butler
Sam Randall
Pennsylvania
Butler
Randall
American Magazine
A Bondred Million Sans A Peep Into Heavens With Telescope
A piece on a modern telescope describes gazing at 100,000,000 stars, each a blazing sun. It suggests suns illuminate trains of planets and hints that beyond these suns there may be hundreds of millions more, continuing system after system and worlds without end.
A Serious Breach of Senatorial Courtesy Alleged
Pucek quotes Senator Grafton accusing Senator Graball of a breach after Graball allegedly offered to work for 25 percent less legal expenses than the speaker's. The exchange presents a political ethics dispute centered on influence and cost-cutting proposals.
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Graball
Grafton
Pucek
The Poet's Troubles Revealed In Early Verses
In Iliegende Blatter, the poet recalls the hardest part of writing first verses was finding someone willing to listen and read them, a hurdle of reception before craft.
Opera Star Salary Record Sparks Dinner Debate
A New York opera season salary of $115,000 drew sharp remarks at a dinner. A maid overheard a guest praising Miss X’s singing as “beautiful” yet comparing it to gargling. Mrs Markley pleas for gown needs reveals tensions over generosity versus selflessness.
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Higuia Jones
Cariso
New York
Misa X
Ike
Lndy
Miss X
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WIT
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Freeport Hardware Company
Galena Street
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Strathmore
Havana
Onsale
H. J. Moogk
Wm. F. Jungkur
Joseph
Theo. Gessner
W. M. Kinne
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Melnick Senate Hotel
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Martin Kroer
Geo, Tinsley
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Frank Rass
C. W. Harden
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